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Might be a good idea to have a look on a site like the AVForums and tell people your budget. They will probably recommend the best set for the cash, as the people who frequent such sites are more into it than I am (I basically bought my TV and stopped looking for fear of depressing myself when new kit is released).

I spoke to a customer service lady at Philips and had her running around to find the answer - in the end she said that it should work. It wasn't very encouraging as I had to explain what I meant by the whole 24 frames thing, but she seemed to be chasing it up with someone else, perhaps who understood.

All in all I still wasn't convinced by the "Yes, it will work" answer.

I only have a certain amount of money to spend you see, and I was trying to get the TV and the Blu ray, but it looks like I might have to plunk for just the TV just now.

Essentially the same thing really, just different ways of writing it. 24p means 24 progressive frames per second. If it can actually display the 24 frames as a multiple of 24 then all well and good, but a lot of TVs marketed as supporting 24Hz such will accept the 24Hz input and convert it internally to 60Hz with pulldown, which introduces further motion artefacts. Can't say for sure which this set does, as I've not been able to find a proper review.

Just to confuse you even more, the vast majority of film-sourced BDs are actually encoded at 23.976Hz to retain compatibility with the NTSC standard (which is actually 59.94Hz, not 60Hz). My TV manual says it supports 23.976, 24, 50, 59.94 and 60. It has two 24p modes: 'Standard' utilises 5-5 pulldown at 120Hz, retaining the jerkiness of 24fps film content, while 'Smooth' uses MCFI to interpolate frames and remove the jerkiness, but it makes everything look like it was shot on video.

I'm not too familiar with Philips LCDs, but I think that's one of the entry level sets. The thing you have to watch out for is whether it can actually display 24p content as a multiple of 24. Some sets just convert to 60Hz using pulldown, rather than using 48Hz/72Hz/120Hz etc.

Personally - and this is just me - I'd be more inclined to look at sets from Sony, Samsung and Toshiba because they have 24p support and/or decent MCFI.